Black Friday, Target, Samsung, Nitto Tire, Macy’s, Toys R Us and More on This Week’s Top 20 Growing Facebook Pages

Target, Macy’s and Toys R Us made their way to our list of the fastest growing Facebook Pages by Likes this week primarily because of their Black Friday sales. Of course there were some movies and TV shows, musicians, brands and athletes on the list, too. Pages on our list this week grew from between 244,200 to 620,600 Likes. We compile this list with our PageData tool, which tracks Page growth across Facebook.

Black Friday Pages on our list this week included Target with a Like-gated daily contest that also publishes to the feed; the Page grew 620,600 Likes to 6.5 million. Then America Express’ Small Business Saturday grew by 259,900 Likes to 2.3 million; the Like-gated app promotes users to buy from small businesses on the Saturday after Thanksgiving with financial incentives. Toys ”R” Us grew by 252,800 Likes to 2.2 million and allows users to download a PDF of special deals. Finally there was Macy’s, which seemed to grow its 242,100 Likes to pass 3 million by promoting Black Friday and its annual Thanksgiving parade.

Movies and TV on this list included “Titanic” with 409,500 Likes to pass 13.4 million, TV show “Torchwood” with 399,200 Likes to reach 464,200 Likes in a seeming Page consolidation and the Indian comedy “3 Idiots” with 336,600 Likes to pass 7.3 million.

Music on the list brought in Egyptian singer Ahmed Ezzat with 309,900 new Likes to 726,600, Rihanna with 288,300 Likes to 47.2 million, Trapt with 274,000 Likes to help the touring band grow to 327,700 Likes and singer Adele saw 261,600 new Likes to grow to 8.6 million.